Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1887-11-02

lowing is considered q good formula:
Two pounds each Of bone, nnseed cake.
dried meats, oats and oyster shells, all
finely ground; one ounce sulphur, two
ounces red pepper, four ounces each of
common salt and copperas, and one
ounce OF bread soda. Mix the whole
thoroughly, and allow q tablespoonful
three times week TO each fowl. As
the cost of these substances will be but
little, quite a large quantity can be
made at one time.
A writer In Hvard's Dairyman says
that as general thing Holsteins are
kept for the purpose of selling their
milk, and are fed for the purpose of
producing quantity instead of quality,
which makes great difference. Feed
them as you do Jerseys for butter and
you will soon see great difference in
the quality of the milk. He has grade
Jerseys, Ayrshires and Shorthorns; al
so thoroughbred Shorthorns, Guern-
seys and Holsteins, and never saw
young cattle do SO we'll on the same
amount of food as the Holsteins do.
The most common cause of abortion
in COWS is food that is damaged ny mil
dew. This fungus growth is always
more or less poisonous, and in some
varieties, as is well known. it has a
specific effect on the reproductive or
gans. Ergot on rye, and also on other
plants, is d familiar example. The
prevalence of abortion in herds of COWS,
often supposed to be epidemic, may be
accounted for by the fact that they are
all given the same kind of food. In
some cases abortion does appear as an
epidemic disease, but many cases can
be otherwise accounted for.
Hoard's Dairyman notes that Prof.
W. A. Henry, of the Wisconsin Station,
last summer kept six COWS, three by
pasturlng and three by soiling, having
the quality of the two herds as nearly
equal as possible. The result was a
product of 1,779 pounds of milk from
one acre of pasture, producing eighty
two pounds of butter, while one acre
in soiling crops gave him 1872 pounds
of milk, which made 1872 pounds of
butter. The pasture was one of the
best blue grass pastures, capable of
carrying II COW per acre through the
season under favorable weather condi-
tons.
A good many farmers have the idea
that milk is not just right for pigs until
it has soured. This is very serious
mistake. No possible good can come
from souring it, but very serious harm.
After you take out the cream and the
water the most that remains is caseine
and sugar of milk. Both are valuable.
But when you sour it you change the
sugar of milk into Tactic acid, and lose
nearly half the entire value of your
milk. Feed milk sweet to calves and
pigs and colts. Never let it sour if
your can help it. Why will you throw
away halt its valuep- The Homestead.
The instinct of the honey bee is ad-
mirably set forth in their practice of
cutting into the base of flowers of
which the corolla is too deep to be pen
etrated by the organs of feeding. An
inspection of flowers of the honey
suckle will show, if there be bees in the
neighborhood, one or more missions at
the oase of the corolla of that long
tubular flower made by the bee and
through which he has drank the sweet
juices. 1t is curious to watch a bee on
honeysuckle, on failing to penetrate
the flower Itself, scamper to the base,
drill hole therein, and through that
drink the drop of golden nectar.
There are some peculiar things about
the measurements of good dairy COW.
The length of the COW from the top of
the head to the rump bone, when the
top of the head is in line with the
spine, should be equal to four times the
length of the head. The circumference
of the cow in the center of the trunk,
and when in full milk and not affe ,ted
by the calf, should never be less than
four times the length of the head. The
length of the udder, measuring be-
tween the quarters, should be equal to
the length and width of the head COM
bined The head of a 1,250-pound COW
should not be less than twenty-one
inches in gth.-Home and Farm.
An advocate of mutton sheep says
that if the farmers of America could
handle on an average fifty ewes ayear,
and be sure to have them only of the
mutton breeds, they would raise more
good meat of a paying quality to the
acre than is now done, and at the same
time produce a greater variety of de-
sirable woods. As it is, he thinks they
are carrying too many eggs in one
basket, supplying little. if any, desira
BILE meat, and vastly too much of one
variety of wool. the result of which in
wool-ralsing is Improbable to the av-
erage farmer. There is an excellent
prospect for the men who will confine
their efforts to the small focks and
make the most of them.
When keeping honey in warm
room, as it should be kept, it is often
necessary to birthstone it TO kill any
larvae of the wax moth which may
chance to hatch out on the comb. Put
the brimstore under the honey, which
should stand at least two feet from the
floor. Put . piece of tin or sheet iron
under the honey to prevent il or the